HOW PRIMARY CARE PRODUCES BETTER OUTCOMES - A LOGIC MODEL

How to integrate social care services into primary health care? An experience from Iran

Background: Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran.   Methods: This was a qualitative study, for whic...

Having a Family Doctor is Associated with Some Better Patient-Reported Outcomes of Primary Care Consultations

BACKGROUND Hong Kong (HK) has pluralistic primary care that is provided by a variety of doctors. The aim of our study was to assess patient-reported outcomes of primary care consultations in HK and whether having a family doctor (FD) made any difference. METHODS We interviewed by telephone 3148 subjects from 5174 contacted households (response rate 60.8%) randomly selected from the general po...

How Can Primary Health Care Contribute Better to Health System Sustainability? a Treasury Perspective

FOREWORD This paper is intended to stimulate discussion on ways in which the objectives of the Primary Health Care Strategy may be further progressed. It has made available to the Ministry of Health to serve as a resource for ongoing policy work. The paper provides a high-level discussion of a range of future directions for the Strategy, largely within the current institutional framework. It do...

What sustainability means for primary care: primary care leads to better overall resource use and higher quality outcomes.

Better tests also in primary care.

TO THE EDITOR—We welcome the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) policy paper about the need for better point-of-care tests (POCTs) to support improved clinical care for infectious diseases, but consider that additional considerations from a primary care perspective, where most infections are managed, also need to be taken into account [1]. Primary care accounts for >80% of all human ...